Party time in China

"The Party Leads All" offers an in-depth perspective on the changes underway under Xi Jinping and how they could affect China in the long term

The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party

Editors: Jacques Delisle & Guobin Yang

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Price: $46.70

This timely volume attempts to discuss and analyse the changes within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the leadership of Xi Jinping. The dictum “The Party leads all” has been adopted and promoted by Mr Xi. At the 19th Party Congress he had said, “Party, government, military, society, and schools, east, west, south, north, and center — the Party leads all”. It underscores a push towards increasing centralisation and concentration of